Topic: Education Policy
Malawi has ordered its 120,000 civil servants to open bank accounts to pay their salaries in a bid to eradicate "ghost workers" from the state payroll, a top government official said Tuesday."It is the expectation of government that once this system is ...
Malaysia on Thursday decided to keep a school literature text which has sparked anger among the ethnic Indian minority over references to the caste system which they said were racially insensitive.The Malay-language novel, "Interlok", has prompted angry protests and the arrest of ...
Dwight Jones had his work cut out for him the instant he set foot in Las Vegas last month. Although he is still learning the ropes, Clark County's new school superintendent must negotiate a contract with the teachers union and others, plead ...
Shanghai students may have topped a recent global survey but educators in China are not rejoicing, saying the country has a long way to go before rote learning and test-taking turn into innovation.The 500 Shanghai students who participated in the Organisation for ...
Federal education officials investigate Calif school district's handling of gay teen situationFederal education officials say a California school district is being investigated over its handling of harassment by classmates of a gay, 13-year-old boy who later committed suicide.Justin Hamilton, a spokesman for ...
Donors are pressing the Kenyan authorities to prosecute education ministry staff implicated in a recent 100-million-dollar graft scandal, a joint statement said Wednesday.The World Bank, the UN children's fund and the development agencies of Britain and Canada called on Kenya to "hand ...
Rumors on cuts are circulatingAs a new governor and Legislature prepare to deal with a $2 billion-plus budget deficit in February, the Clark County School District needs to focus on two questions — one obvious, the second obscure: ¥ The obvious: Can ...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The incoming Republican chairman of the House of Representatives education committee said that he would oppose any bill tightening rules on for-profit schools, and hoped the Education Department would ease a planned rule that could cost some schools critical ...
Wyoming Education Department reaches settlement with student exam company over PAWS testAfter months of negotiations, the Wyoming Department of Education has reached a settlement with a testing company over technical problems that plagued the state's student assessment exam this year, a state ...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - For-profit schools, already subject to a government crackdown over academic standards, got a nearly eight-fold increase in veterans' education funding over the last five years, according to a report issued on Thursday.Senator Tom Harkin, who chairs the Health, Education, ...
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